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Send us Fan Mail Gina Marie Boyd is an integrative health practitioner, a spiritual counselor, and a PhD candidate in transpersonal counseling. Her dissertation is called Symptoms as Messages, and the whole idea is that the things we're feeling inside of our bodies are actually trying to tell us something. Gina's route here was not a straight line. Investment banking in her twenties, then quitting to do improv and stand-up in Hollywood without telling her family. Then MasterChef (*ahem*), a food column, and the presidency of a company, complete with the Gucci loafers and the private jet. Then losing all of it, nearly dying, and walking into an AA meeting in Austin thinking, I am nothing like you people. This conversation covers health, addiction, Ayurveda, the biohacking boom, why the wellness internet feels leaderless, and what happens when spirituality starts telling people what to believe. In this episode: • What transpersonal counseling actually is, and what it does that regular therapy doesn't • Investment banking to secret stand-up: pretending to drive to work and going to improv class instead • MasterChef, steak tartare at the audition, and the producers deciding she "cannot be managed" • Losing everything, and the synchronicity that got her into her first meeting • Raised atheist, with no higher power to hand anything over to • So what is health? A 5,000-year-old answer from Ayurveda • The biohacking question nobody asks: if you're this obsessed with staying here, what are you afraid of losing? • Adding versus subtracting, and why balance is the least exciting right answer • Why everyone online is hunting for one system to believe in, and what that costs • Symptoms as messages, including the client eating spicy food every single night • Correlation, causation, and why stress and illness are so hard to talk about honestly • Science versus scientism, by way of Charles Tart • Thomas Kuhn, paradigms, and why the anomalies piling up right now are being ignored for social reasons rather than scientific ones • Why Gina won't tell anyone what to believe, and what she makes of spiritual leaders who do • Did I manifest this? The real danger in "you created your own illness" • Moving from "what's wrong with me" to "what is this trying to show me" • One book to start with, one thing she was wrong about, and a symptom she's reading in her own body right now Chapters 00:00 Welcome  03:32 What is transpersonal counseling?  06:43 Banking, then secretly doing stand-up  07:32 MasterChef, and "she cannot be managed"  11:29 From food TV to integrative health  13:05 Losing everything  14:39 The first meeting in Austin  15:17 Raised atheist, and what came next  18:08 So what is health?  19:41 Biohacking, and what optimizers are afraid of  21:06 Adding versus subtracting  26:40 A leaderless moment, and everyone looking for a system  28:49 Why it isn't one size fits all  34:02 Successful, sick and using  38:00 Symptoms as messages  41:40 Energy, stress and the profit motive  43:31 Why science and spirituality get treated as enemies  47:26 Science versus scientism  49:02 Paradigms, and why anomalies get ignored  52:07 Telling people what to believe  55:55 Did I manifest this?  59:50 From "what's wrong with me" to "what is this showing me"  1:01:59 A book to start with  1:04:04 One thing she was wrong about  1:05:37 What twenty years of addiction gave her  1:06:51 A symptom she's reading right now WTF Is Anything? is the podcast from Disco, a curated monthly experience that explores consciousness, reality and the unknown. Join us at jointhedisco.com.

Send us Fan Mail What happens after we die, and did we choose the life we're living now? In Part 2 of our conversation with hypnotherapist Jennifer Catlin, we go deep into Life Between Lives (LBL) and past life regression, the spiritual hypnosis method developed by Dr. Michael Newton, author of Journey of Souls. Jennifer shares what she's witnessed guiding clients through their own soul memories. In womb regression, people who felt like life was happening to them discover a very different truth: "I chose this." She walks us through the map of the afterlife that Michael Newton's research revealed, including the life review, spirit guides, soul groups, the Akashic Records and pre-birth life planning, and explains how free will fits in. She also explains why sessions have become less predictable. More clients now recall past lives on other planets, from water worlds to highly advanced civilizations, and Jennifer believes the veil is thinning as human consciousness evolves. From there, the conversation gets wonderfully weird. We talk about non-linear time and parallel lives, orbs in a child's bedroom, whether a new soul can enter a person during a spiritual awakening, old souls vs. young souls, and why Earth feels like a school. Jennifer offers her view on why we incarnate at all: Source experiencing itself through us. We also ask what the dinosaurs mean spiritually, talk about the Law of One and animal souls, and share a sign from our cat Frank, who has passed. We close on what this means for everyday life: how understanding reincarnation and the soul's journey can change your relationship with anxiety, your inner critic and your nervous system. In this episode: - What really happens in a Life Between Lives session - Womb regression and why so many people realize "I chose this" - The afterlife map: life review, spirit guides, soul groups and life planning - The Akashic Records and the "library" clients describe - Past lives on other planets and the thinning veil - Is it imagination or real memory? A skeptic's question - Non-linear time, parallel lives and orbs as future selves - Walk-ins, spiritual awakening and sudden personality changes - Old souls, young souls and Earth school - Why we incarnate: Source experiencing itself - The Law of One, animal souls and signs from pets who have passed - Using spiritual insight to heal anxiety and self-criticism Jennifer Catlin is a member of the Disco Expert Network. Disco members get a preferred rate on sessions. Learn more and book at jointhedisco.com. Missed Part 1? Go back to hear how Jennifer went from school psychologist to hypnotherapist, and the hypnosis session and near-death experience (NDE) that changed her life.

Send us Fan Mail What happens to the soul between lives? Hypnotherapist Jennifer Catlin guides past life regression and Life Between Lives sessions, the method developed by Dr. Michael Newton, author of Journey of Souls. In Part 1 of our conversation, she shares how a school psychologist with no spiritual vocabulary ended up doing this work. It started with a feeling in her gut and a stranger she felt she had always known. When she asked a clinical psychologist to evaluate her, she was handed Brian Weiss's Many Lives, Many Masters instead. Then, during a routine hypnotherapy training session, Jennifer left the room. First she found herself as a light being in "human school." Then she was on another planet, with tall beings who spoke in clicks and surrounded her with unconditional love. Two weeks later, heart problems from Lyme disease caused her to lose consciousness while driving. What followed was a near-death experience (NDE) and an out-of-body experience that ended her doubts about life after death. In this episode: - Who Michael Newton was and what happens in a Life Between Lives session - Why hypnosis can reach the same place as near-death experiences, psychedelics and mediumship - Intuition, spiritual awakening and learning to trust your body - Past life recognition: meeting someone you feel you already know - Is a hypnosis experience "just a dream"? - Comparing a hypnotic regression and an NDE side by side - Consciousness, multidimensionality, reincarnation and the soul's journey - The Law of One, "wanderers," and what Michael Newton called hybrids Jennifer Catlin is a member of the Disco Expert Network. Learn more about her work and book a session at jointhedisco.com. Part 2 continues the conversation on past lives, what Jennifer's clients experience in Life Between Lives sessions, and how hypnotherapy can heal by revealing our true nature. We also go way off script. Don't miss it.

Send us Fan Mail Will Holland on Non-Human Intelligence, Experiencers & the Spirituality of Contact (Pt. 2) If Part 1 laid the groundwork — terminology, theories, the deep state — Part 2 is where it gets gloriously strange. Will Holland takes us past the hangar-and-craft material into the human accounts: the experiencers, the abductees, and the people who say something followed them home. We get into the hitchhiker effect and why contact so often refuses to stay a single event. Will walks us through the stories he can't shake — Natalie, the John Deere worker who summons orbs on her Tennessee mountain; the football-field-sized rectangle over a Brazilian-quiet cabin; Whitley Strieber's implant that moved when the surgeon went in. We map the high-strangeness zones (Skinwalker Ranch, Mothman, cattle mutilations) and the mass sightings that are hardest to wave off (Phoenix Lights, the Belgium wave, Varginha, the Ariel School in Zimbabwe). Then the thread everyone underestimates: consciousness. The CE5 community, the government's remote-viewing past (Stargate, Hal Puthoff, Ingo Swan), and the psionics resurfacing now through whistleblower Jake Barber and Skywatcher,  soldiers using their minds to draw the phenomenon in. Will closes on the part that actually matters to him: what disclosure does to the soul, the religions it might spawn, and why the people communing with this stuff...not controlling it...may be the ones who've understood it best. Topics: experiencers and abduction accounts, the hitchhiker effect, CE5, Skinwalker Ranch, high strangeness, cattle mutilations, Phoenix Lights, the Varginha case, remote viewing and the Stargate program, psionics, Jake Barber and Skywatcher, non-human intelligence, telepathy, consciousness, and the spiritual edge of disclosure. Start with Part 1 for the foundation: UFOs, UAPs, secret programs, and the deep state machinery behind disclosure.

Send us Fan Mail Will Holland on UFOs, UAPs & the Secret Programs Behind Disclosure (Pt. 1) In Part 1 of our two-part conversation, Will Holland walks Disco through the full strange terrain of the phenomenon. We get into the competing origin theories — extraterrestrial, interdimensional, and the increasingly hard-to-dismiss crypto-terrestrial hypothesis — and why the answer might be "all of the above, and also none of them." Will unpacks the deep state machinery around UFO secrecy: legacy programs, whistleblowers and the real risks they take, controlled disclosure, free energy implications, and the possibility that the phenomenon is a multi-layered reality we're only seeing one frame of. Less "the truth is out there," more "the truth is structured to stay out of reach." A conversation for the curious and the skeptical alike. Topics: UFO and UAP terminology, NHI, experiencers, CE5, interdimensional and crypto-terrestrial theories, government secrecy, whistleblowers, the deep state, free energy, and why critical thinking is the only real flashlight. Part 2 goes deeper into non-human intelligence, the experiencer phenomenon, and the spiritual edge of contact.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we sit down with Julie Cluff — spiritual medium, channel, grief coach, and author of Miracles in the Darkness — to hear one of the most extraordinary stories we've ever had on the podcast. On Mother's Day 2007, Julie survived a rollover car accident that took the lives of two of her children. What unfolded in the years that followed was nothing short of miraculous: visitations, signs, angelic communication, and an awakening that ultimately led her to her life's mission. Julie shares how she developed the HOPE model of grief healing, what it's actually like to channel the Council of Wisdom, and why she believes all healing — however it arrives — is miraculous. It's a tear jerker, so get the tissue out and keep your heart open always. Find Julie at juliecluff.com, on Instagram @JulieCluffCoaching, and on YouTube at JulieCluffCoaching. ----- Don't forget to sign-up for our monthly curated experience & community where we go deep into all the human magic we love to talk about here. Expert talks, workshops, community discussions, and so much more. Our first cohort sign-up window is June 24-July 2. Visit jointhedisco.com BONUS: Use code DISCOFIRST20 to be the first twenty founding Disco community members w/ locked in 10% off forever monthly rate + 20% commission on every new member you bring into the community (monthly...yes, do the math). See you there!

Send us Fan Mail What if everything you've been searching for was already here? Otis Smallwood, founder of Awakening Genius, executive coach, and one of the most quietly mind-blowing humans we've ever sat across from, joins us for a conversation that started as an interview and ended as something closer to a session. Fair warning: this one will get under your skin. Otis takes us from his childhood in Minnesota to losing a million dollars at 25, from a random bookstore encounter to 21 days in an ashram outside Chennai, and into the work he now does helping founders and executives find their way back to themselves. We get into self-study vs. self-improvement, the neurobiology of enlightenment, what medicine journeying actually does (and doesn't do), why the ego isn't the enemy, and what it really means to directly experience divinity, not just believe in it. By the end, we were crying. You might be too.  Note: This episode explores deeply philosophical and spiritual concepts. Reflect at your own pace and integrate what resonates into your life. Otis emphasizes direct experience over belief, urging us all to remember our divine nature that’s already within.

Send us Fan Mail Kim Knievel spent years climbing the corporate ladder — PR agencies, Microsoft, Under Armour — before a single Akashic Records reading stopped her in her tracks. Not because it told her something she didn't know. But because it reflected back something she'd been looking away from. In this episode, we sit down with Kim to explore one of the most misunderstood and underestimated modalities in the consciousness space. We get into what the Akashic Records actually are and what it actually feels like to be inside them as a reader. We also talk about the difference between seeking revelation and receiving reflection, why the most spiritually potent information tends to be the most inconvenient, and how Kim is bridging the world of soul-led work with the practical, strategic minds who are quietly ready for it but don't quite have language for it yet. Plus: Zach's skepticism gets a full airing. Kim handles it beautifully. If you've been curious about the Records but didn't know where to start — or if you've had a reading that left you underwhelmed and wondered why — this episode will reframe the whole thing. Show Links Kim Knievel Field Guide

Send us Fan Mail Summary Mari is a somatic psychotherapist, trauma therapist, international brainspotting trainer, shamanic practitioner, and one of the most genuinely layered humans we've had on this show. Her story moves through immigration, addiction, homelessness, eight trips to rehab, a psychic awakening that looked nothing like the wellness industry version — and eventually, a single brainspotting session that changed the entire trajectory of her life and work. In this conversation we get into all of it. What brainspotting actually is, why it works when talk therapy doesn't, and what's really happening in your brain and body when you find a spot. What it means to carry your ancestors' unfinished business in your nervous system right now. Why most of Western therapy has it backwards. And what she's learned from decades of sitting with people in their absolute darkest places (including her own). We also go somewhere most wellness conversations don't — into the shadow, the unseen, and what it actually looks like to work with energies that aren't exactly warm and fuzzy. This one is dense, rich, and genuinely unlike anything we've recorded. Come curious. Key Topics The science behind brain spotting and the orienting reflexMari's personal journey through trauma, addiction, and spiritual awakeningThe spiritual and energetic aspects of brain spotting and energy workHow brain spotting helps access and process stored trauma in the bodyThe role of intuition, spirit guides, and energy in trauma healingThe importance of sovereignty and boundaries in spiritual and energetic workMari's work with dark energies, demons, and spirit guidesThe intersection of neuroscience, spirituality, and energy healingPractical insights into conducting a brain spotting sessionThe significance of ancestral and lineage healing in trauma recovery Brain spotting as a direct access to the limbic systemThe role of eye movements in emotional and trauma healingThe connection between subconscious, body, and healing capacityThe impact of ancestral trauma and epigeneticsThe limitations of traditional talk therapy and the power of somatic approaches

Send us Fan Mail Summary Join Zach and Michelle as they reconnect after a three-month break, sharing personal updates, exploring the intersection of consciousness, spirituality, and current events. This episode sets the stage for a transformative year with new community initiatives and deeper conversations. Keywords spirituality, consciousness, community, societal change, inner work, outer work, global events, personal growth Key topics Personal updates and new beginningsThe role of spirituality and consciousness in societal changeThe launch of the Disco community and upcoming initiativesBalancing news consumption with inner peaceThe importance of inner work and self-inquiry

Send us Fan Mail Summary This episode explores the transformative power of 5-MeO-DMT and other consciousness tools, featuring Denise's insights on awakening, soul work, and the evolution of human consciousness. Zach and Michelle recall their journey with the medicine and how they continue to integrate its wisdom. Key Topics DMT and 5-MeO-DMT origins and effectsThe role of plant medicine and sacred sacraments in awakeningThe concept of the new human and collective consciousnessTools and practices for deep somatic and spiritual awakeningTakeaways 5-MeO-DMT is a natural psychoactive substance in the human body and plants.Synthetic 5-MeO-DMT allows precise dosing for safe, profound experiences.Awakening involves realizing our multidimensional, eternal nature.Tools like meditation and plant medicine help access expanded states of awareness.Collective awakening is accelerating, leading to a new human consciousness. Resources MetamorphosisBill Atkinson and Jaguar MedicinePsychedelic Meditation InstituteGuest links Website

Send us Fan Mail In 2019, a near-death experience cracked open her old identity — atheist, addict, survivor — and revealed a deeper truth about love and creation. Now a transformation coach and student/teacher of A Course in Miracles, Betty shares how forgiveness became her portal to freedom and why divine connection doesn’t need a church to be holy. In this episode, we explore the difference between religion and direct spiritual experience, the power of manifesting through forgiveness, and what it means to embody Christ Consciousness in everyday life. A story about remembering who you are, even when you’ve forgotten completely.  Show Links buddhabetty.com // Instagram: @buddha.betty ACIM Study Group: https://buddhabetty.com/resources/ YT: www.youtube.com/@buddhabetty A Course in Miracles

Send us Fan Mail Ever wondered why some days feel like flow and others like friction? Human Design might just hold the map. In this episode, therapist and energy practitioner Lauren Steel breaks down the system that blends astrology, chakras, and modern psychology into one surprisingly practical tool for understanding who you are and how your energy moves through the world. We talk types, energy, and the art of honoring your natural rhythm—whether you’re a Generator chasing joy, a Projector waiting for the right invitation, or just someone curious about why you do what you do. Think of it as a crash course in cosmic self-awareness, minus the jargon, plus a lot of insight. Show Links Lauren Steel: https://bluerainlily.com/ Lauren’s Meditations: https://youtube.com/@laurensteel-888?si=8V2BiODmsSmK0XRa Get your HD Chart: https://www.mybodygraph.com/

Send us Fan Mail Author and transformation guide Laurie McGinley joins us to talk about the real, embodied science of change. Drawing from the teachings of Dr. Joe Dispenza and her own method, The Dissolve™, Laurie shares how meditation, intention, and emotional safety can literally rewire the brain — and why the future you want can only unfold when you stop forcing and start believing. Show Links Laurie McGinley / ViaLucent.com / @ViaLucent Running Into the Petri Dish of Burnout by Laurie McGinley Dr. Joe Dispenza

Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, we talk to Jordan Jozak, who was part of a military psionic testing program disguised under GATE, until 2010 where he was trained, from age 8, to communicate telepathically w/ non-human aircraft via consciousness. Today, Jordan is speaking out and shining a light on these programs, and what it could mean for human progress. We talk about Jordan's profound experiences under the control of this program, his current work exploring the realms of telepathy and consciousness, and what he's taking from all of it moving forward. He discusses the importance of community, the role of technology in understanding consciousness, and the upcoming initiatives he is launching, including the Telepathy Center and Night Under the Stars events & research.  Jordan emphasizes the need for transparency and healing in the exploration of human potential and the interconnectedness of all beings. Show Links JordanJozak.com / Twitter / Instagram Skywatchers Documentary Recent Video Release